Carole E. Newlands, PhD

Carole E. Newlands, PhD

Biography: Carole E. Newlands is professor of classics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Newlands received a PhD in comparative literature and Medieval studies from the University of California at Berkeley. She is author of An Ovid Reader: Selections from Seven Works (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2014); Playing with Time: Ovid's Fasti (Cornell University Press, 1995); Statius' Silvae and the Poetics of Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2002); Statius, Silvae Book II (Cambridge University Press, 2011); Statius, Poet between Rome and Naples (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013); and numerous articles on Augustan, post-Augustan, and Medieval Latin literature and culture, and reception studies.

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Ovid’s poetry, once regarded as superficial in comparison to that of other Augustan poets, is now hailed for its artistry, its mastery at storytelling, and the profound influence it has had on literature and art from the poet’s own time to the present day.